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This year I will be remembering the six members of the BOXALL family in West Dean (near Chichester), Sussex who gave their lives during the First World War and are commemorated on the war memorial in St. Andrew’s Church, West Dean.

The memorial itself features the names of 26 men who lost their lives during the First World War and a further tablet remembers six men who died during the Second World War.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

EDWARD BLUNDEN

ALBERT JUPP

ALFRED BOXALL

FREDERICK KNIGHT

ARTHUR BOXALL

EDWARD MARSH

FREDERICK BOXALL

ALBERT NEWMAN

LEONARD BOXALL

JAMES NUNN

SIDNEY BOXALL

CHARLES PEARCE

WALTER BOXALL

EDWARD POLLARD

ALBERT CHAFFER

HERBERT PRATT

WILLIAM CHAFFER

WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE

DAVID CHASE

HAROLD STICKLAND

ERNEST CROFT

JAMES WHITMARSH

RICHARD DAVIES

ALFRED WALKER

FREDERICK JOHNSON

FREDERICK WESTBROOK

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS

Unfortunately I have not been able to discover when this memorial was actually unveiled, nothing in the parish records seems to relate to it. My only chance of finding out more would seem to be a time-consuming trawl through local newspapers, which I will get around to one day unless anyone else happens to know.